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Biennial: A plant that lives for two years and typically flowers only in the second year.
Perennial: plants that live for at least three seasons; after an initial period they produce flowers once a year.
Raceme: an inflorescence where the individual flowers all have distinct stalks. (See http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/ksheets/pdfs/flower.pdf for a fact sheet on flower structure).